- My Forums
- Tiger Rant
- LSU Recruiting
- SEC Rant
- Saints Talk
- Pelicans Talk
- More Sports Board
- Coaching Changes
- Fantasy Sports
- Golf Board
- Soccer Board
- O-T Lounge
- Tech Board
- Home/Garden Board
- Outdoor Board
- Health/Fitness Board
- Movie/TV Board
- Book Board
- Music Board
- Political Talk
- Money Talk
- Fark Board
- Gaming Board
- Travel Board
- Food/Drink Board
- Ticket Exchange
- TD Help Board
Customize My Forums- View All Forums
- Show Left Links
- Topic Sort Options
- Trending Topics
- Recent Topics
- Active Topics
Started By
Message
re: Woman says Walmart oil change ruined her car, leaving $10k repair bill
Posted on 8/14/25 at 10:14 am to BigBinBR
Posted on 8/14/25 at 10:14 am to BigBinBR
quote:
I almost guarantee this is because the Hyundai dealer wants to put in a brand new engine with 0 miles on it and Walmart wants to put a used/remanufactured engine in since her car is 8 years old and the engine that was damaged probably already had over 100,000 miles.
Nah, it’s because Walmart is always rolling back prices.
0
Posted on 8/14/25 at 10:25 am to LSUTANGERINE
Ignore at your peril
Posted on 8/14/25 at 10:36 am to Obtuse1
Quick oil places can be a disaster..
Had my oil changed at a place I use often by my house.. soon had an oil drip.. had my mechanic look at things.. he said someone put in a plug from a different car brand.. stripped my threads and I had a leak… could not prove it was the last oil place although they had done 90 percent of my oil changes..
Cost me installation of a new pan
Had my oil changed at a place I use often by my house.. soon had an oil drip.. had my mechanic look at things.. he said someone put in a plug from a different car brand.. stripped my threads and I had a leak… could not prove it was the last oil place although they had done 90 percent of my oil changes..
Cost me installation of a new pan
Posted on 8/14/25 at 10:39 am to LSUTANGERINE
On a correlated story, my 80+ years old FIL got an oil change at a dealership, then noticed some oil leaking in his carport, took the car back to the dealership, then they charged him like $80 to "repair the faulty oilpan threads" . Acted like they were doing hima favor. And my FIL is too mechanically dumb to realize what happened to him.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 10:48 am to wallowinit
I will never ever take my vehicle to Walmart. They suck so bad.
They’ve left lug nuts off and I’ve caught them lying straight to my face about the 30 something item check.
Screw Walmart for everything.
They’ve left lug nuts off and I’ve caught them lying straight to my face about the 30 something item check.
Screw Walmart for everything.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 10:55 am to LSUTANGERINE
Reason #83 to do your own oil changes and reasonably simple maintenance items.
Trigger the people who will now post how their time is more valuable to let someone else do it.
Trigger the people who will now post how their time is more valuable to let someone else do it.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 11:04 am to LNCHBOX
quote:
Comprehensive insurance doesn't cover mechanical issues
Leaving a oil plug out is 100% covered by comprehensive. It's negligence on the part of the oil change company - in this case Walmart.
And oil leak would not be covered because it would be under the maintenance exclusion. Some insurance companies might try to deny because they might say she should have known that there was no oil due to the oil light coming on. For that to hold up we would need to know how long the engine ran before it seized.
This post was edited on 8/14/25 at 11:08 am
Posted on 8/14/25 at 11:10 am to LSUTANGERINE
Take 5 did in fact ruin my MILs car. They added ~5qts of oil and then added another ~5qts.It was a huge pain to get it fixed. They insisted on their own mechanic, and after 2 months of no progress, my FIL took it to the dealership. It was north of 10k to fix, and Take 5 eventually paid for it.
It was a relatively brand new Ford Escape.
It was a relatively brand new Ford Escape.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 11:35 am to LSUTANGERINE
This is not the least bit newsworthy. This is not some rare or unusual occurrence. I can think of four cases like this off the top of my head.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 12:41 pm to wallowinit
quote:
There’s a lot more to it than just putting the plug back in.
I don’t see how she made it out of the parking lot without the plug in. The engine would quickly expel any oil that might be there, but without the plug, the oil would go straight through when they put it in.
I actually don’t see how that would ever happen unless the plug fell out And it’s difficult to see how a plug would fall out later on even if it was only several threads in.
But, shite happens I suppose.
I was given a brand new, off the delivery truck Highlander when I was in Vancouver. After a few miles, I felt the car driving roughly but was on an interstate and it took me a few miles to exit and find a safe place to pull over. Engine locked up completely. The manufacturer hadn’t put oil in the vehicle before delivering to the rental company.
The car actually drove several miles that way before it locked up.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 12:42 pm to LNCHBOX
Comprehensive insurance doesn't cover mechanical issues
Sure they do. Buddy's truck was under warranty when injector pump failed. Entire new fuel system needed to the tune of about 12k (10 years ago). Ford dealer managed to find a speck of rust on a sensor and denied warranty coverage as it was "contaminated fuel". Filed a comp claim, he paid his deductible and insurance covered the remainder.
Sure they do. Buddy's truck was under warranty when injector pump failed. Entire new fuel system needed to the tune of about 12k (10 years ago). Ford dealer managed to find a speck of rust on a sensor and denied warranty coverage as it was "contaminated fuel". Filed a comp claim, he paid his deductible and insurance covered the remainder.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 12:49 pm to CocomoLSU
quote:
Seems like an awfully high amount of money to just put the plug back in. ?
Post of the year
Posted on 8/14/25 at 12:50 pm to Seth Bullock
quote:
Sure they do. Buddy's truck was under warranty when injector pump failed. Entire new fuel system needed to the tune of about 12k (10 years ago). Ford dealer managed to find a speck of rust on a sensor and denied warranty coverage as it was "contaminated fuel". Filed a comp claim, he paid his deductible and insurance covered the remainder.
bullshite
Posted on 8/14/25 at 12:57 pm to LSUTANGERINE
This happened to us at Walmart 30 years ago. They ran water through our engine and blew it up. Realized the mistake right away. Told us they would take care of everything. Rental car and tow to where we wanted it repaired.
Pulled the same thing - wanted to take an engine out of a wrecked car that wasn’t even the same model and replace it. We’d towed it to Paretti in Metairie. Paretti said they would not replace the engine with an engine from another vehicle. We’d have to go elsewhere. Basically we had to pay the remainder of what was owed to replace a new engine. We were so stinkin’ poor at that point. We had to use our tax refund to pay the balance. We were twenty four years old, too stupid to know to call an attorney. We didn’t go to Walmart for anything after that. Full on boycott for twenty plus years. Then our oldest got a job at corporate Walmart. The irony…
Pulled the same thing - wanted to take an engine out of a wrecked car that wasn’t even the same model and replace it. We’d towed it to Paretti in Metairie. Paretti said they would not replace the engine with an engine from another vehicle. We’d have to go elsewhere. Basically we had to pay the remainder of what was owed to replace a new engine. We were so stinkin’ poor at that point. We had to use our tax refund to pay the balance. We were twenty four years old, too stupid to know to call an attorney. We didn’t go to Walmart for anything after that. Full on boycott for twenty plus years. Then our oldest got a job at corporate Walmart. The irony…
Posted on 8/14/25 at 12:58 pm to LSUTANGERINE
My son had a Nissan dealership do an oil change on a 370Z. They did not tighten the oil pan drain plug beyond finger tight. It was leaking on the driveway. We jacked it up and tightened it and won’t go back to that stealership. It lost about a fourth of quart.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 1:01 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Would think the oil light would light immediately if the plug was never installed.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 1:10 pm to LSUTANGERINE
When I was in college the first time back in the 80’s my parents moved from Memphis to Tulsa so when I went home for the summer it was where I didn’t know anyone.
1st thing I did was call a temp agency and they immediately sent to a car dealership to clean up flooded cars. There were 14 of us from the temp agency and the dealership had just hired a driver right before the flood.
Getting to know the guys led to the driver talking about his experience at a Andy Granatelli oil change shop ( it was a regional chain with like 10 locations in Tulsa alone) where they fired “a guy” for leaving the drain plug off a brand new corvette.
After the flood cars were completed just the driver and I were retained. The driver backed a DeLorean into a brick wall parking it after service. It turns out the driver was “a guy” from the oil change screwup.
1st thing I did was call a temp agency and they immediately sent to a car dealership to clean up flooded cars. There were 14 of us from the temp agency and the dealership had just hired a driver right before the flood.
Getting to know the guys led to the driver talking about his experience at a Andy Granatelli oil change shop ( it was a regional chain with like 10 locations in Tulsa alone) where they fired “a guy” for leaving the drain plug off a brand new corvette.
After the flood cars were completed just the driver and I were retained. The driver backed a DeLorean into a brick wall parking it after service. It turns out the driver was “a guy” from the oil change screwup.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 1:31 pm to Sidicous
Walmart would likely only replace it with a used motor of similar mileage. If it is one of the 6-cylinder Hyundai motors, I would check to see if it's one of the ones that develops some serious problems around 120k. If so. I'd look into taking the money and using it to buy something else.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 1:37 pm to BigBinBR
quote:
the Hyundai dealer wants to put in a brand new engine with 0 miles on it
As it should. If it overheated, everything is shot and the block is warped.
quote:
Walmart wants to put a used/remanufactured engine
What Walmart wants at this point, is irrelevant.
She should go see a shrink, complain about stress and anxiety, among other things...and get them for a ton of pain and suffering.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 1:39 pm to MorbidTheClown
quote:
If they filled it with oil and didn't put the plug back in, wouldn't it leave a trail of oil leading right back to the service bay?
I doubt she would have even been able to drive out of the bay before it all leaked right back out.
Think about it.
When they take the drain plug out, it only takes 5 minutes or so for all the old oil to drain out. The new oil would drain just as fast with no plug in.
It takes at least five minutes for them to try to upsell you on services you don't need and to sign the paperwork and pay.
Page 3 of 4
Popular
Back to top
Follow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News